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An al-Shabab commander, Salah Ali Salah Nabhan, was killed in a U.S. helicopter strike in the town of Barawe last year.
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An al-Shabab commander, Salah Ali Salah Nabhan, was killed in a U.S. helicopter strike in the town of Barawe last year.
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Al Shabaab officials and pirates say the group has begun to send out militants in pirate skiffs from two southern cities it controls, Kismayo and Barawe.
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Barawe is near Merka, a key port town with an airstrip that al-Shabab seized earlier this week; both are in the region of Lower Shabelle, which surrounds Mogadishu.
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Associated Press by phone from Barawe, 110 miles (180 kilometers) southwest of Mogadishu.
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Amin Adan, a resident of the port town of Barawe, said that fighters of al-Shabab took control on Saturday without a fight because the government's allies left as soon as they heard the fighters were on their way.
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Businessman Bashir Hassan says the men were arrested because Somali businessmen had chartered their vessel, the Muskan, to carry charcoal from the ports of Barawe and Kismayo.
Somalia arrests 10 Indian sailors in capital - Yahoo! Finance 2011
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A truck driver who transports charcoal from across the southern region to the Barawe port said smaller forests were disappearing fast as charcoal burners cut down big trees.
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"About three ships leave every month from the town of Barawe alone," he said.
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The man was killed in Barawe town on the southern Somali coastline by pirates who had taken him hostage and wanted him to go onshore from his yacht in which he was sailing with others, including a woman and a boy.
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